Archives for February 2018

A discussion thread for a recipe on a Disqus channel I followed made me realized that there are some misconceptions about the stir-fry technique we associate with Chinese and other Asian quisines. This recipe was for an Italian Chicken Stir Fry. Could you use traditional Italian ingredients and make a stir fry dish? Sure! But it […]

It would be natural to assume that everyone’s favorite brunch dish (isn’t it?), Eggs Benedict, was named after an actual person. But, there are so many stories about who this person we simply can’t be certain who invented the dish. Also possible is that the dish is a modern rendering of an old French dish, […]

During the 1950’s, a guy named Omar Knedlik, who owned a Dairy Queen in Coffyville, Kansas, got fed up with how inefficient the ice cream cone was at producing a brain freeze and invented a machine to make a frozen drink called an ICEE. After that, you could produce the headaches by the dozen, leading the […]

The difference between white mushrooms, baby Bella or cremini mushrooms, and portabellas may surprise you. In fact, these familiar varieties are actually are not different mushrooms, but different cultivars of the same mushroom. A cultivar is a plant, or in this case, mushroom, of a particular species that is selected and/or bred for certain desired […]

I was watching the latest episode of The Profitwith Marcus Leomonis last night and one of the segments spurred me to write about something I was not going to bother writing about because I thought it was thoroughly covered: Should you rinse raw chicken in the sink before preparing and cooking it? The episode featured a […]